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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="12-607" title_number="12" title_name="Plumbers" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts; Penalties">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this subsection, “officer” includes a superintendent, manager, and agent of a corporation regardless of whether it engages in the business of providing plumbing services.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person, including an officer, who violates any provision of the following sections of this subtitle is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $50 for each day or part of each day that the violation continues:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>§ 12-602;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>§ 12-603; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>§ 12-604.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person who violates any provision of the following sections of this subtitle is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $100 or imprisonment not exceeding 6 months or both for each day or part of each day that the violation continues:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>§ 12–601;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, § 12–605; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>§ 12–606.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This subsection does not apply to a violation of any prohibition on the sale or installation of a fixture or other device that is not water–conserving.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Any person who knowingly and willfully violates any provision of § 12-501(a) of this title is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 6 months or both.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In addition to any other penalties under this title, the Board may impose on a person who violates any provision of this subtitle a penalty not exceeding $5,000 for each violation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In setting the amount of the penalty, the Board shall consider:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the gravity of the violation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the good faith of the violator;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the quantity and gravity of previous violations by the same violator;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the harm caused to the complainant, the public, and the plumbing profession;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>the assets of the violator; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>any other factors that the Board considers relevant.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
